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JERSEY CITY "The Black Maria Film Festival," award-winning films from the 209 juried competition. Feb.

" 'Black Maria,' 'The Groaning Board,' 'Monster Rally,' 'Drawn & Quartered,' " she says, rapturously reciting titles of Addams collections.

Levinson has a dead officer in his apartment and a Black Maria — the menacing vehicle in which he was to be hauled away to prison — parked outside.

Edison's Black Maria Studio A drawing of the exterior from 1894 The Black Maria ( ) was Thomas Edison's film production studio in West Orange, New Jersey. It is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio".

When Lady Lightfoot produced she dropped eight foals in nine years. Several of her foals achieved fame, especially her great daughter, Black Maria by her old rival American Eclipse. (Not to be confused with Lady Lightfoot's dam, also called Black Maria.) Many consider Black Maria a greater runner than her dam. Lady Lightfoot seems to have died soon after her last foal, making the date 1832 or 1833.

Lead Us to Reason is the debut album from Canadian band The Black Maria.

A Shared History of Tragedy is the second album from Canadian rock band The Black Maria.

These were the short films made for the Kinetoscope in 1895 at Edison's Black Maria studio.

Black Maria (1923–1932) was an American Thoroughbred racing filly who earned national Champion honors three times.

Confusingly, sometimes the name Black Lady is given to this game and sometimes Black Lady is called Black Maria.

Wood has received the Silver Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival and the Director's Citation from Thomas Edison's Black Maria Film Festival Black Maria Film Festival She is a recipient of grants from the Film Arts Foundation Film Arts Foundation and the Jerome Foundation,Jerome Foundation and is a MacDowell Colony fellow.

It was selected by Film/Video Curator Sally Berger for the Black Maria 20th-anniversary retrospective at MoMA in 2006.

In early May 1893 at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Edison conducted the world's first public demonstration of films shot using the Kinetograph in the Black Maria, with a Kinetoscope viewer. The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths. Annabelle Whitford doing her "butterfly dance", recorded at the Edison's Black Maria studio The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright by W. K. Dicksonat the Library of Congress in August, 1893. In early January 1894, The Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (aka Fred Ott's Sneeze) was one of the first series of short films made by Dickson for the Kinetoscope in Edison's Black Maria studio with fellow assistant Fred Ott.

One was "Robin Hood," brother of a great Boston (horse). Tayloe entered his mare, "Black Maria", to race at the Metairie course, just outside New Orleans. The mare was one of four in a four-mile heat race. Black Maria and two others each won one heat of four miles (each heat was four miles).

Retrieved 7 Feb 2020. It is sometimes misnamed Black Maria which, however, is the British variant of Hearts played with additional penalty cards.

The Black Maria was a Canadian rock band from Toronto. After touring and recording actively between 2002–2007, the band has gone into a permanent hiatus.

Saline's Solution was Aline Mare's film about her own fetal abortions. Saline's Solution was one of the independent films shown in the 1992 Black Maria Film and Video Festival.

He also had success as a sire of broodmares and was the damsire of Black Maria and Brokers Tip. Sardanapale died in December 1934 at the age of 23.

The sequel Tales From the Bully Pulpit vol 2: Legend of the Black Maria has no confirmed print date, but Benito Cereno has confirmed both its title and eventual existence.

Coe liked horses and was a thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast. He built a riding stable on his "Planting Fields" estate and put together a racing stable based at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Coe's filly Black Maria won the Kentucky Oaks in 1926, the Metropolitan Handicap in 1927, and the first running of the Whitney Handicap in 1928. Black Maria was voted the U.S. Champion Older Female Horse for 1927 and 1928.

Black Maria is the British variant of Hearts and features three additional penalty cards – the worth 10 points, the worth 7 points and the Black Maria or worth 13 points. It was first described by Hubert Phillips in the mid-20th century. It usually includes passing to the right (not left as in other variants) which is considered more challenging because you don't know any of the next player's cards. Hitting the moon is an optional rule.

Comedian George Carlin recorded his album What Am I Doing in New Jersey? and performance for the HBO special in 1988. The New Jersey City University–based Black Maria Film Festival has screened films at the venue.

At the time, Edison was working at the Black Maria studios in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1999, the short was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The Black Maria was, according to the staff who worked there, a small and uncomfortable place to work. Edison employees W. K. Dickson and Jonathan Campbell coined the name—it reminded them of police Black Marias, (police vans, also known as "paddywagons") of the time because they were also cramped, stuffy and a similar black color. Edison himself called it "The Doghouse", but that name never took hold. The Black Maria was covered in black tarpaper and had a huge window in the ceiling that opened up to let in sunlight because early films required a tremendous amount of bright light.

"Early Edison Motion Picture Production (1892-1895) in Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies", retrieved April 15th, 2012. The U. S. National Park Service maintains a reproduction of the Black Maria, built in 1954 at what is now the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange. A previous reconstruction had been built and dedicated in May 1940 when MGM held the world premiere of Edison, the Man starring Spencer Tracy in theaters throughout The Oranges (West Orange, East Orange, South Orange, and Orange).A replica of the 'Black Maria' studio appeared in Universal-International's comedy Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops (1955).

The Barbershop is an 1894 American short narrative film directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise. It was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company at the Black Maria Studio, in West Orange, New Jersey. The Kinetoscope film has been described as Heise's most ambitious film production.

Royal Canadian Air Cadets 205 Collishaw squadron, named after him, is in his home town of Nanaimo, and 204 Black Maria squadron, named after his aircraft, is located in Kamloops. On 2 October 1999, the terminal at Nanaimo Airport was named the Nanaimo-Collishaw Air Terminal in his honour.

In the 1880s, UND consisted of only a few acres of property, surrounded by farms and fields, nearly two miles west of the city of Grand Forks. Students living off campus had to take a train or a horse and carriage bus, dubbed the "Black Maria", from downtown to the campus.

On October 17, Caron was driven to the Ontario Reformatory in Guelph, with other future inmates on a bus dubbed the "Black Maria". His memoir Go-Boy! documents the next 23 years of his life. Roger Caron's nephew, Jay Caron, son of Roger's brother Ray, was shot dead in the back by Cornwall Police.

One of these three winners had to win the fourth heat in order to claim the stake. Black Maria won the deciding fourth heat, the same afternoon, thus having run a total of 16 miles. She won the sixteenth mile in 2:08 minutes. Tayloe eventually went bankrupt, but his brothers restored his fortune.

An eight-cylinder inline version of the 539T was developed by Alco. This diesel engine developed from . It was never used in a locomotive, but a twin bank V-8 had been planned to be used in an early version of the “Black Maria” DL-202/DL-203 in response to EMD's FT locomotive.

Thomas Edison's Laboratory, currently a National Park, was where he developed the inventions that earned more than 1,000 patents, including the light bulb, stock ticker and recorded sound. The laboratory grounds also include the Black Maria - America's first movie studio, the birthplace of Hollywood.Where Modern America Was Invented, Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Accessed November 7, 2019.

Six fillies have won the race: Black Maria (1928), Bateau (1929), Esposa (1937), Gallorette (1948), Lady's Secret (1986), and Personal Ensign (1988). In the 2015 listing of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), the Whitney tied with the Kentucky Derby as the top Grade 1 race in the United States outside of the Breeders' Cup races.

Annie Oakley is an 1894 short film, most notable for being Annie Oakley's first appearance on film. The man assisting her is likely her husband, Frank E. Butler. The film shows Oakley using a rifle to shoot at several stationary objects and thrown disks. It was shot on November 1, 1894, around Edison's Black Maria, West Orange, New Jersey.

The second album, written and produced by Scott and Theo in the band, sold slightly less than Lead Us To Reason but was received very warmly by critics in contrast to the mixed reviews of its predecessor. CD Artwork was done by Oliver Nacinovic. The Black Maria was a winner of Yahoo! Music's "Who's Next?" at LAUNCHcast.

In 1925, Myhill applied to the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1925 to have the name changed to Norfolk Grey as the breed did not gain popularity under Black Maria. The Norfolk Grey came close to dying out in the early 1970s but a private flock containing 4 birds was found in 1974 and the breed was revived.

The Norfolk Grey is a utility breed of chicken that originated near the city of Norwich, in Norfolk, England, in around 1910. The breed was originally created by Frederick W Myhill of Hethel, Wymondham under the name Black Maria. It is a rare breed which is currently considered to be at risk by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

Stronger than the World () is a Brazilian film, it is a biographical movie about MMA fighter José Aldo. The film was produced by Black Maria e Globo Filmes, directed and written by Afonso Poyart, with the cast of José Loreto, Cleo Pires, Rômulo Arantes Neto, Milhem Cortaz, Jackson Antunes, Claudia Ohana, Paloma Bernardi and Rafinha Bastos. The idea of the film was conceived during Internet searches made by Poyart after a call from the director of expansion and shareholder of Paris Filmes who proposed a project for a feature film involving MMA. In 2011, Poyart's producer, Black Maria, was already commanding the development of the film which had high points of standstill due to problems ranging from casting to the director's own absence for engagements in Hollywood cinema.

In 1919, Marusya Sokolovskaia became the commander of her brother's cavalry detachment after his death in battle. A 25-year-old Ukrainian nationalist school teacher, she was captured by the Reds and shot. In 1920-1921, Black Maria (Marusya Chernaya) became a commander of a cavalry regiment in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. She died in battle against the Red Army.

In 1893, the world's first film production studio, the Black Maria, or the cinematographic Theater, was completed on the grounds of Edison's laboratories at West Orange, New Jersey, for the purpose of making film strips for the Kinetoscope. Construction began in December 1892Robinson (1997). p. 23. and was completed the following year at a cost of $637.67 (approx. $15,272.99 in 2010 dollars).

Hearts is an "evasion-type" trick-taking playing card game for four players, although most variations can accommodate between three and six players. It was first recorded in America in the 1880s and has many variants, some of which are also referred to as "Hearts"; especially the games of Black Lady and Black Maria which are now the most popular games of this family in America and Britain respectively. The game is a member of the Whist group of trick-taking games (which also includes Bridge and Spades), but is unusual among Whist variants in that it is a trick-avoidance game; players avoid winning certain penalty cards in tricks, usually by avoiding winning tricks altogether. The original game of Hearts has been almost entirely superseded by Black Lady in the United States and Black Maria in Great Britain.

In the catalogue of Essentian Vermeer (click on the woman in black) Maria Thins apparently played an important role in their life. She was a devotee of the Jesuit order in the nearby Catholic Church, and this seems to have influenced Johannes and Catharina too. Their third son was called Ignatius, after the founder of the Jesuit Order.Bailey, Anthony, Vermeer: A View of Delft, p. 63.

This all-Canadian flight was commanded by the ace Raymond Collishaw. Their aircraft, named Black Maria, Black Prince, Black George, Black Death and Black Sheep, were distinguishable by their black-painted fins and cowlings. Black Flight claimed 87 German aircraft in three months while equipped with the Triplane. Collishaw scored 34 of his eventual 60 victories in the aircraft, making him the top Triplane ace.

It was one > of the classic dogfights of the war, like Barker against Linke, like Hawker > against Richthofen – two skilled and experienced fighters, who knew every > trick, had met. Collishaw's Sopwith Triplane, 'Black Maria', 1917. > They met head-on, then they went into the "waltz" , but at last Collishaw > found an opening, and Allmenröder went down out of control, to crash to his > death near Lille.

Motion picture technology was developed by Thomas Edison, with much of his early work done at his West Orange laboratory. Edison's Black Maria was the first motion picture studio. America's first motion picture industry started in 1907 in Fort Lee and the first studio was constructed there in 1909. DuMont Laboratories in Passaic developed early sets and made the first broadcast to the private home.

GE steeplecab Black Maria used in Taftville The steeplecab style was developed in America. The first ever built steeple cab was a 30 ton model built by General Electric (GE) in 1894. It was used in a textile mill in Taftville, Connecticut till the mill closed in 1964. This was only the second electric locomotive built by GE and it is preserved as a static display in the Connecticut Trolley Museum.

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist is an 1894 short film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. The film, which runs 12.5 seconds, consists of a contortionist act performed by Luis Martinetti of the Martinetti Brothers trapeze act. Martinetti wears tiger-striped tights and performs contortionist poses on a pair of trapeze rings. The film was shot on October 11, 1894 at the Edison Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of Dickson, one of the earliest film pioneers. It was filmed within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, which was the first U.S. movie studio. It was filmed between January 2, 1894, and January 7, 1894 and was displayed, at the time, through the means of a Kinetoscope.

There he made the award- winning 16 mm short Bedhead (1991). The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair which she detests. Even at this early stage, Rodríguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor. Bedhead (1991) was recognized for excellence in the Black Maria Film Festival.

Alfred Clark was born in New York on 19 December 1876. He was educated at the Franklin School in Washington and the City College of New York. He took an early interest in electricity and left college at sixteen to join the North American Phonograph Company. This collapsed in 1894 and Clark then joined Thomas Edison to make early short movies using the Kinetoscope technology at the Black Maria studio.

The breed was originally created by Myhill before 1914, possibly as early as 1908. During the First World War, the breed was allowed to free range while Myhill had departed for military service. On return, Myhill discovered that the birds had cross bred with other breeds and the strain had to be recreated. The Norfolk Grey was first exhibited under the name Black Maria at the Dairy Show in 1920.

This was filmed at the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, and was produced by William K.L. Dickson. It was only the second boxing match to be recorded. The 1897 boxing match vs Fitzsimmons Jim Corbett lost his Heavyweight Championship to the Cornish British boxer Bob "Ruby Robert" Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada. Corbett was dominant for most of the fight and knocked Fitzsimmons to the canvas in the sixth round.

No. 1 Naval Squadron at Bailleul, France Raymond Collishaw's Triplane, serial N533. Collishaw flew several Triplanes, all named Black Maria French naval Triplane No. 1 Naval Squadron became fully operational with the Triplane by December 1916, but the squadron did not see any significant action until February 1917, when it relocated from Furnes to Chipilly.Franks 2004, p. 9. No. 8 Naval Squadron received its Triplanes in February 1917.Franks 2004, p. 22. Nos.

Possession of the ♣Q is not always dangerous. If it is well "guarded" and one can rely on it not being forced out by the Club leads of the other players, and one will, sooner or later, be able to discard it. As in Black Maria and those Misere hands which lend so much interest to Solo, one wants to conserve as long as possible the low cards which control the suit.

Edison's film studio was used to supply films for this sensational new form of entertainment. More Kinetoscope parlors soon opened in other cities (San Francisco, Atlantic City, and Chicago). In 1901, the first public film was screened in Oberlin, Ohio, starting the transition from kinetoscope to screen. When Edison built a glass- enclosed rooftop movie studio in New York City, the Black Maria was closed in January 1901, and Edison demolished the building in 1903.

The Black Maria was formed in November 2002, based out of the Greater Toronto Area in Canada. Band members include vocalist Chris Gray, guitarists Alan Nacinovic and Scott Swain, keyboard and bassist Mike De Eyre, drummer Theo McKibbon. They signed with Victory Records in 2004 and recorded their debut, "Lead Us To Reason", at Signal To Noise Studios with producer Mike Green. Lead Us to Reason was released on January 25, 2005.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of one of the earliest pioneers to film William K.L. Dickson. It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the USA, which is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio". It was filmed on September 7, 1894. Courtney died a little over a year after the film was made.

In 2006, the band collaborated with local Mediacorp artiste Fiona Xie in a love song duet, entitled "Love Will Shine on Through". The song was recorded to raise funds for a cancer project, with a book and a CD recorded together. One of their songs, "One More Moment", was covered by Singaporean artiste Ho Yeow Sun. The band enjoyed a number one hit called Black Maria in the Singapore charts, the song Crazy Son reached third.

Reversis, or more rarely, Réversi, is a very old trick-taking card game of the Hearts group whose origin is supposed to be Italian, transformed into Spain and then in France. It is considered one of the two probable ancestor of Hearts and Black Maria, the other being Conquimbert, or Losing Lodam. It was very popular with the French aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and much played elsewhere, except in Britain.Oxford Dictionary of Card Games, p.

Statue of young Thomas Edison by the railroad tracks in Port Huron, Michigan. The Blue Water Bridge can be seen in the background. In West Orange, New Jersey, the Glenmont estate is maintained and operated by the National Park Service as the Edison National Historic Site, as is his nearby laboratory and workshops including the reconstructed "Black Maria"—the world's first movie studio. The Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum is in the town of Edison, New Jersey.

In the 1920s, the variation (ten positive points) was introduced, and some time later the scoring was reversed so that penalty points were expressed as positive instead of negative. Meanwhile, in Britain the game of Black Maria, with its additional penalty cards in the suit of spades, emerged in 1939 and, both it and another offshoot, Omnibus Hearts, are "sufficiently different and popular to justify descriptions as separate games." The game has increased in popularity through Internet gaming sites.

The Babelsberg Studio near Berlin was the first large-scale film studio in the world and the forerunner to Hollywood. It still produces movies every year. In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera. He distributed these movies at vaudeville theaters, penny arcades, wax museums, and fairgrounds.

In the studio she was joined by Patricia Clarke and Shane Howard on backing vocals and Archie Cuthbertson on drums and percussion for the first recording of the Gunditjmara lullaby, Vulla Vunnah Nah. She followed with her second album, Burning in the Rain, in March 2004. It was recorded over two years, during four trips to her family's ancestral home of Ireland. Produced by Steve Cooney the album featured Tim O'Brien, Mary Black, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Bourke and Laiose Kelly.

Four major and three minor variations of the song were included in the soundtrack. As Moviexclusive describes Sydney Tan's score, "the […] use of pianos and strings is complemented by the occasional wistful accompaniments of the traditional erhu, adding the essential 'Asian touch' to the music." According to Woo, during auditions for the film, several young actors teared upon hearing the song, which reminded them of their youth and parents. The film's soundtrack also includes two songs by the local band Ronin, "Black Maria" and "Memories".

The railroad began daily service on May 1, 1900, with two wood- burning locomotives. One of the engines was dubbed The Black Maria and came second-hand from a North Carolina logging operation. After the railroad was finished, employees of the lumber and railroad company would take train flatcars down to the beach area on their free weekends, becoming the first Grand Strand tourists.Dr. A. Geff Ballard: The Independent Republic, a Survey History of Horry County, South Carolina, page 128, paragraphs 3, 2nd edition, 1989.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of one of the earliest pioneers to film, William K.L. Dickson. It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the United States, which is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio." Filming on this work took place between March 10, 1894 and March 16, 1894. According to the Internet Movie Database the film is 15.24 m in length.

Buffalo Dance is an 1894 American 16-second black-and-white silent film shot in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. The film was made at the same time as Edison's Sioux Ghost Dance. It is one of the earliest films made featuring Native Americans. In this film, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer, three Sioux warriors named Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse dance in a circle and two other Native Americans sit behind them and accompany them with drums.

The film was released in April 1896 and was publicized in a sponsored article in the New York World about actors kissing on stage. The article discussed the controversy surrounding onstage kissing and, along with an illustration of the Irwin and Rice kiss, referred readers to The Widow Jones and the Edison film. The campaign sought to bring attention to the newspaper, play, and movie all at once. The film was one of the last shot at Edison's Black Maria and was sold to exhibitors for $7.50 ($232 in 2020).

Before Thunderbolt died of his powers' side effects that aged him to an old man, he was happy that he now knows who killed his brother.Power Man and Iron Fist #62 Big Ben Donovan later came under the employ of Tombstone at the time when Tombstone was working for the Serbian Black Maria Gang. When the "Marvel Knights" investigated the criminal activity, Tombstone sent Bengal, Big Ben Donovan, and Bullet to deal with them.Marvel Knights #11 Big Ben Donovan faced off against Daredevil where Black Widow's "widow bites" managed to take down Big Ben Donovan.

As the robbers make their getaway, they are flagged down by two young girls whose treehouse is on fire, and once more they are required to join in the fighting of a real fire. Undeterred, well equipped and, above all, well trained, they join in. Unfortunately for them, Alfie attaches the wrong hose to the pump and covers the scene of the fire with the stolen money instead of water. The film ends with the crooks sitting in the "Black Maria" on their way to their next stint in prison.

In 2008, Hammer received The Leo Award from the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her films Generations and Maya Deren’s Sink both won the Teddy Award in 2011 for Best Short Films. Her film A Horse Is Not A Metaphor won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film in 2009 it also won Second Prize at the Black Maria Film Festival. It was also selected for several film festivals: the Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Punta de Vista Film Festival, the Festival de Films des Femmes Creteil, and the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund/Koln.

His first film exhibition was Archaeomodern, shown at the Ann Arbor Festival of Experimental Film in 1993. In 1995, his film, a self-referential film in 30 sentences, won a Director's Citation award at the Black Maria Film Festival. Other works have screened in Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among others. His video Telemetry screened as an installation during the first Athens Video Art Festival.

It was built on a turntable so the window could rotate toward the sun throughout the day, supplying natural light for hundreds of Edison movie productions over its eight-year lifespan. When word spread about the new invention, performers flocked to the Black Maria from all over the country in order to be in the films. These silent movies featured dancers, pugilists, magicians and vaudeville performers. Their appearances at the studio were used as publicity opportunities by Edison, who would often pose with the performers for newspaper articles.

A London Metropolitan Police J4 (usually referred to as a Black Maria) appears parked in the street on the cover of the Beatles Abbey Road. The van had been driven down by the policeman who came to stop the traffic behind the camera during the photo shoot. There was a second police officer out of sight further ahead up the road stopping any oncoming traffic. The Beatles also were transported in an Austin J4 minibus owned by their then manager Allan Williams when playing clubs in Hamburg Germany around 1960-1962 era.

He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was raised in the American Midwest; early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey S. Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey that featured the world's first film studio, the Black Maria.

She was named after an earlier world-famous black racehorse, the second element of whose name was pronounced /məˈraɪə/ (ma-rye-ah) in accordance with the traditional English pronunciation of Latin and Latin-based names always used at that time. The first Black Maria was foaled in Harlem, New York in 1826. She won so many races her purse winnings alone amounted to nearly $15,000, a very large sum for the period. Her most famous exploit occurred on 13 October 1832 when she won the race for the Jockey Club purse of $600 at the Union Course.

Margaret Stratton (born 1953) is an American photographer and video artist. Her work in photography has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, Her videos are represented by the Video Data Bank, and have been screened nationally and internationally, as noted in the Harvard Crimson, Wild Women Storm the Film Archive, The Berlin Film Festival. Awards include the Director's Award: Black Maria Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA. She is a professor at the University of Iowa. Stratton is a graduate of the Evergreen State College (BA, 1977), the University of New Mexico (MA, 1983 and MFA, 1985).

She also presented the film at the University of Cambridge and at the New York Academy of Sciences. The film's broadcast premiere on KQED-TV was March 22, 2019, as part of the network's Women's History Month Programming. The film was awarded first place for a professional documentary at the 2019 Raw Science Film Festival. The film also received a Director's Choice award at the Black Maria Film Festival and a Best of Fest at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, and was also screened at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, and at Doclands, the California Film Institute's docs-only festival.

Several films in production at Edison's Bronx studio, c. 1914-1915. Seated in the foreground, with his legs crossed, is Charles Brabin; seated to the rear, with the card "26" under his arm, is Harold M. Shaw. The first production facility was Edison's Black Maria studio, in West Orange, New Jersey, built in the winter of 1892–93. The second facility, a glass-enclosed rooftop studio built at 41 East 21st Street in Manhattan's entertainment district, opened in 1901. In 1907, Edison had new facilities built, on Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place, in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx.

Lead us to Reason did well for an independent release, selling upwards of 50,000 copies and opening the door to tours with several successful bands. The band has been through some turmoil, losing guitarist Kyle Bishop, ex-frontman for Grade, as well as drummer Derek Petrella, Ex Damn 13 member Mike Charette briefly played with The Black Maria for a handful of tour dates following the departure of Bishop. They released their new album, A Shared History of Tragedy, in the US on September 5, 2006. The release date for Canada was pushed back to September 19, 2006.

Amy Lee during a concert in 2007 The first leg of The Open Door Tour began on October 5, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and finished on December 15, 2006 in New York City. After touring North America during October, Evanescence traveled to Europe during November before returning to the United States to play at large arenas. The leg of the tour continued on January 5, 2007, and consisted of appearances in Canada, Japan and Australia. When performing in the United States, Canada and Australia, Evanescence was supported by Revelation Theory, Stone Sour and The Black Maria, and Shihad, respectively.

American Eclipse was sold at a public auction for $8,050 to Walter Livingstone, who permanently retired him to stud in New York. There he sired his best son, Medoc. Then he was sent to Virginia and finally, in 1837, to Kentucky. American Eclipse produced numerous stakes winners and others including Ariel, a filly who won 42 of 57 starts, including 18 four-mile heats; Black Maria (out of Lady Lightfoot, his old rival) who won 11 races with three- and four-mile heats; Lize (second dam of Enquirer); Ten Broeck (not the Nantura Farm Ten Broeck); Monmouth Eclipse; Bay Maria; and Gano.

If it is Spades, the card is returned into the middle of the stock, and a new card turned to determine trumps. The Queen of Spades is a special card called Maija (Black Maria). During play, whenever a player has fewer than five cards in his hand and there are cards left in the stock, the player must draw cards from the stock so that they have five cards. Each player in turn plays one or more cards from the hand to the table with the following restrictions: the cards must all be of the same suit (for this purpose, Maija counts as a spade).

Black Maria was the rainbow code name for an identification friend or foe (IFF) interrogator carried by interceptor aircraft in the Royal Air Force and US Navy. When initially developed, beginning in 1951, it was based on the World War II-era IFF Mark III IFF system because the newer IFF Mark X units were not available from US at the time. Marconi received interim Mark X equipment in mid-1953 and quickly added support, but it was not until mid-1955 that the first production units became available. During development in the UK, it was also referred to as the Fighter Identity System, or FIS.

Her films have screened at over 400 film festivals including venues such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival. Gulati's award-winning 2005 documentary film, Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night explores business process outsourcing in India. The film was broadcast on television in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, The Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. Her most recent film I AM has won 14 awards and continues to exhibit extensively.

The film was produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, which had begun making films in 1890 under the direction of one of the earliest pioneers to film William K.L. Dickson. It was filmed entirely within the Black Maria studio at West Orange, New Jersey, in the United States, which is widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio". It is believed to have been filmed in April 1893 and was shown publicly (in a Kinetoscope viewer) at the Brooklyn Institute on May 9, 1893. According to the Internet Movie Database the film was made in a 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1.

The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee was the motion picture capital of America. The industry got its start at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion picture studio, in West Orange, New Jersey. New Jersey offered land at costs considerably less than New York City, and the cities and towns along the Hudson River and the Palisades benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal growth of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century.Kannapell, Andrea.

Her second stop-motion animated short film Hanging By A Thread, premiered at Nevada City Film Festival, where it won the Best Animated Short. It also won Spirit Award for Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival. In 2017, the second short in the trilogy, Meeting MacGuffin, the sequel of Hanging By A Thread, screened at the Academy Awards qualifying Holly Shorts in 2017, won Grand Prize for Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, Shorts Production Design Award at the Other Worlds Austin Festival, Merit Award at the Indie Fest, Best Animated Film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and Jury Citation Award for Best Animation at the Black Maria Film Festival.

For other collaborations on the first album, Victor worked with vocalists from bands including 311, Ours, Hum, Finger Eleven, Shudder to Think, The Velvet Teen, Our Lady Peace, Age of Electric, The Watchmen, The Black Maria, Creeper Lagoon, Starflyer 59, City and Colour, Deckard, Supergarage, Evelynn, and Cirrus. Victor wrote most of the music, insisted on performing all the instrumentation himself, and also completed all the producing and mixing stages. Victor finished the album in September 2005. There were several unreleased tracks written and recorded for Act 1, including the songs "John Dies At 56" (featuring Mogwai), "Throwing Chairs" (featuring Switchfoot), "Shipbuilding" (featuring Unbelievable Truth), and "This Is My Fate" (featuring City and Colour).

Harold Lloyd in the clock scene from Safety Last! (1923) The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey was the motion-picture capital of America. The industry got its start at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey. The cities and towns on the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades offered land at costs considerably less than New York City across the river and benefited greatly as a result of the phenomenal growth of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century.

Eager for good publicity, Edison took Blackton to his Black Maria, the special cabin he used to do his filming, and created a film on the spot of Blackton doing a lightning portrait of Edison. The inventor did such a good job selling the art of moviemaking that he talked Blackton and partner Smith into buying a print of the new film, as well as prints of nine other films, plus a Vitascope to show them to paying audiences. Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton (1916) The new act was a great success, despite the various things Blackton and Smith were doing between the Edison films. The next step was to start making films of their own.

Unwanted Superheroes (also known as USH) was a five-piece emo-core band from Pembroke Pines, Florida. Formed in 2002, Unwanted Superheroes shot up the South Florida music scene in only a flash. Rising up from out of nowhere in the small town of Pembroke Pines, Florida, they went on to share the stage with bands such as Thursday, Coheed and Cambria, Emery, 18 Visions, A Static Lullaby, Brazil, The Beautiful Mistake, Misery Signals, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, Hawthorne Heights, The Fully Down, Rise Against, Alexisonfire, Silverstein, This Day And Age, Remembering Never, The Panic Division, Hopesfall, Burns Out Bright, codeseven, Anatomy of a Ghost, LoveHateHero, The AKA's, The Bensons, The Ombudsmen, Disclaimer 70, Jack Morgan BSc, The Black Maria, Rory, and Madison.

Experimentally equipped with three narrow-chord wings and a more powerful engine, the Pup led to the Triplane, which was used by just four squadrons of the RNAS during 1917, but became well known for its startling fighting qualities, put to best use by Raymond Collishaw's famous 'Black Flight' of 'Naval 10' (No. 10 Squadron RNAS). This flight was so called due to the black identification colour of the flight's aircraft, which in turn led to their naming as Black Maria, Black Prince, Black Death, Black Roger and Black Sheep. Such was the impact of this type that it spawned a large number of experimental triplane designs from manufacturers on all sides, although only the Fokker Triplane achieved any subsequent success.

In the summer of 2004 Hyde returned to Cusco to shoot the short film version of his feature-length script for Chicle. To date the short film has played in the Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Vladivostok Film Festival, Brisbane Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Zimbabwe International Film Festival, and Athens International Film Festival. Its honesty and innocence resonates strongly with both American and International audiences, consequently landing itself in the Korean National Film Archive, where it is viewed as an example of excellence in film textbooks and curriculum. After receiving his MFA, Hyde moved to New York City, where he continues to make films.

Patrick's films focus on low-tech, traditional, film-based techniques to explore ideas of consciousness and decay. According to the Southern Arts Federation, his films are "filled with eerily beautiful visuals that evoke a surreal, otherworldly feel which is complemented by the absence of a traditional narrative." He has been awarded grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows Page the Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund,The Austin Chronicle: Search Results and The Rooftop Film Fund. His films have won awards at The Black Maria Film Festival, The Humboldt International Film Festival, Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid, South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW), The Ann Arbor Film Festival, U.S.A. Film Festival, Big Muddy Film Festival, and Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona.

Writing in Ploughshares, Rob Arnold observes that in that first book Young "explores his own family's narratives, showing an uncanny awareness of voice and persona." Young has described his next three books To Repel Ghosts (named for a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting), Jelly Roll (a collection of love poems named for Jelly Roll Morton), and Black Maria as an "American trilogy", calling the series Devil's Music. Young's collection The Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014) won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Young is also the author of For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, Blues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015 (2016) and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), Jazz Poems (2006), and John Berryman's Selected Poems (2004).

In the Hearts family of card games, the queen of spades is usually considered an unlucky card; it is the eponym of the Black Maria and Black Lady variants of Hearts. The player who ends up with the queen of spades after a match scores 13 points (points are to be avoided in this game). The exception is when the player receives this card with all 13 hearts, in which the player is said to have shot the moon, and this player scores no points, while all opponents are scored 26 points. In the game of Old Maid, while any card can technically be used for this purpose, the queen of spades is traditionally used as a card that has no match, thereby making it the "old maid" card.

On June 2011, the director and screenwriter, Afonso Poyart, in an interview with Esporte UOL reiterated that his producer Black Maria was in the pre-production of a film based on the trajectory of José Aldo. The plot would be centered on the story of the fighter, "a guy who started down there, went through needs and moved the world," Poyart said. Afonso Poyart was still involved in works related to the distribution of 2 Coelhos, thus generating a delay in the progress of the production of the cinebiography, whose provisional title at the time was "Vale Tudo - Uma História de Luta". The development of the feature film came to various halts, with a stalled period from Poyart due to commitments made in Hollywood cinema in a drama titled Solace starring Anthony Hopkins.

In 2000, Sasha accepted a position teaching Film & Video at the University of Iowa, where she met her husband, media and social practice artist John D. Freyer, and created, over several years, a series of personal experimental films that have screened widely in the U.S. and abroad, including at the Tribeca Film Festival; Big Sky Documentary Film Festival; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival; IMAGES in Toronto; Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cinema Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, winning awards in the experimental film category from the Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Humboldt International Short Film Festival. Her 2010 documentary Chekhov for Children, premiered in the U.S. at the Telluride Film Festival and internationally at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

In 1995, Leighton Pierce's first feature film "50 Feet of String" constructed a domestic space beyond the recognizable and mundanely familiar. The film won Best of Fest at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (1996), Best Experimental at the Atlanta Film and Video Festival (1996); Best Experimental at the Athens Film Festival (1996); Juror's Citation at Black Maria Film and Video Festival in 1996. It also screened at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Osnabrück Media Arts Festival, the Image Forum, Japan, Impakt Film Festival, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Museum of Modern Art, NY. In 2009, Leighton exhibited "Agency of Time" at the Sundance Film Festival : a multichannel video and sound installation that created animations from long-exposure photography. The installation was commissioned by the Sheldon Museum of Art.

Wentworth has lived for many years in the Kings Cross area of London and in 2002 he realised the Artangel project An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty in which for three months he took over a plumbing supply shop in the area converting it into a base for visitors to explore and engage with the area. In 1996, his Marking the Parish Boundaries along the River Tees in County Durham was the first public art project to be funded by the National Lottery. Major solo presentations include Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France (2017), Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London, UK (2015), Black Maria with Gruppe, Kings Cross, London, UK (2013), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2010), 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009), TATE, Liverpool, UK (2005), Artangel, London, UK (2002), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1994), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1993).

Lana Z Caplan is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, video, film and interactive media installations who lives and works in the United States. Her works have been described as a "suggestion of worlds colliding" and present an abstract illustration of the deepening "schism between humans and the landscape." Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world in cities such as Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Manitoba, New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso, and Barcelona. Recent exhibitions include Inside Out Art Museum (Beijing China), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Edinburgh International Film Festival (Edinburgh Scotland), Antimatter Film Festival (Victoria BC), Crossroads Film Festival (San Francisco), Black Maria Film Festival (65 city touring program) and Public Art Video Commission for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

The short film was made for publicity purposes, as a series of still photographs to accompany an article in Harper's Weekly. It was the earliest motion picture to be registered for copyright — composed of an optical record of Ott sneezing comically for the camera. The first films shot at the Black Maria, a tar- paper-covered, dark studio room with a retractable roof, included segments of magic shows, plays, vaudeville performances (with dancers and strongmen), acts from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, various boxing matches and cockfights, and scantily-clad women. Many of the early Edison moving images released after 1895, however, were non-fictional "actualities" filmed on location: views of ordinary slices of life — street scenes, the activities of police or firemen, or shots of a passing train. On Saturday, April 14, 1894, Edison's Kinetoscope began commercial operation.

For many decades West Orange has been a center the mass-media and telecommunication industries. Thomas Edison's Black Maria, the first movie studio ever, was located on Main Street and Lakeside Avenue. Several radio and television broadcast antennas are located in the town. From the late 1960s/early-1970s until the early 1990s UHF Channel 68 TV maintained their offices, studios and transmitter at 416 Eagle Rock Avenue. After Channel 68 moved to West Market Street in Newark and their transmitter to the Empire State Building in Manhattan, NBC owned and operated stations WNBC-TV Channel 4 and WPXN-TV Channel 31 (NBC later sold its interest in WPXN's parent Paxson Communications) moved into the Eagle Rock Avenue complex operating backup transmitter facilities in case of a catastrophic event such as the destruction of their main transmitters at the World Trade Center which occurred on September 11, 2001.

The Lawrence Arms also played a portion of the 2004 Warped Tour, but the band's attitude towards the tour resulted in controversy. In a 2006 interview, Kelly claimed that the band "did like seven days of it and we got kicked off it, banned for life" for "pointing out the obvious flaws of the Warped Tour, on stage while the people running the Warped Tour were watching us." When asked his opinion of the tour, Kelly responded: > Warped Tour, it’s destroying the economy of DIY; and it’s doing it very > methodically and very successfully in that [the] summer touring season used > to involve a bunch of bands, like Alkaline Trio for example, jumping on > buses and taking smaller bands, like us and The Black Maria for example, on > tour. There would be all these bands that would do that, so all these > support bands would have great tours to go on.

In 2002 Pepe Ozan and Melitta Tchaikovsky directed this 58 minute documentary, Ganga Ma, a Pilgrimage to the Source, following the holy pilgrimage of the Hindus from the Bay of Bengal up to the Himalayan glaciers through the Ganges River. The film received the following awards: Award Winner - Best Documentary, Taos Film Festival 2002, Award Winner - Director's Citation Black Maria Film Festival 2002, Official Selection - Santa Cruz Film Festival 2002, Official Selection - Latino International Film Festival 2002, Official Selection Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. In 2004 Pepe Ozan and Melitta Tchaikovsky directed a 54-minute documentary, Jaisalmer Ayo, Gateway of the Gypsies, capturing the lives and travels of vanishing nomadic communities from the Thar Desert and exploring their ancestral links with the European Roma or Gypsies. It received the Best Documentary award at the San Francisco Video Fest 2004 and appeared at may film festivals.

Other notable species are the juazeiro and jatobá, and other species: cassutinga (Caesalpinia microphylla), black maria (Vitex sp.), umburana or northeastern cumaru (Amburana cearensis), white jurema (Mimosa sp.), among many other creeping and shrub plant.200px Although the municipality has small forest islands called Riparian Forests, often located on the banks of the rivers and streams of the region, the fauna is composed of animals adapted to the Caatinga. Animal biodiversity often ends up having its natural habitat threatened by miners, ranchers and hunters, who aim at territorial expansion, exploitation of natural resources and also illegal trade in animals; Consequently, it ends up entailing a predatory activity unrestrained and without any control with respect to the ecological imbalance that this action can cause. Brumado has a very wide biodiversity, both vegetal and animal, ranging from small specimens to medium-sized animals threatened with extinction.

Jones wrote an episode of The Gold Robbers (1969) around the same time. In the UK he had written book and lyrics for two musicals with composer Kenny Clayton, "Cupid" and "Black Maria" and his witty two hander play, "Early One Morning" became the musical "Fugue in Two Flats" with music by Paul Knight. His popular musical version of "Peter Pan" has music by Andy Davidson. After moving to Crete he added to his canon of book and lyrics for musicals when he wrote a musical based on the life of the infamous Spanish courtesan of La Belle Époque, "La Belle Otero", music by Christopher Littlewood, two opera libretti for which, at the time of his death, he was looking for a composer, and two new plays, a comedy set in Athens, "Marry Go Round", and "The Muses Darling", a play on the last few days of the life of Christopher Marlowe.

The collective was formed as an initiative to overcome a trans-border road trip challenge proposed by Nigerian photographer; Emeka Okereke, as the response to an invitation to attend the 8th edition of the Bamako Photography Encounters at the Bamako Biennale. This challenge was inspired by his expedition from Lagos to Aba, with Ray-Daniels Okeugo.. The founding members of the collective, Emeka Okereke and Uche Okpa-Iroha, explored the theme of the festival – “Borders”, through an artistic travel adventure. They requested to exchange their flight tickets for money to travel to the festival by road with their colleagues who agreed to take on the challenge.. The challenge became a dare within the group, whose members; Uche James-Iroha, Lucy Azubuike, Emeka Okereke, Amaize Ojeikere, Uche Okpa-Iroha, Ray-Daniels Okeugo, Unoma Giese, Chriss Nwobu, Nike Ojeikere and Charles Okereke,spearheaded the trip into a Trans-African Road Trip project. The group traveled in a black Volkswagen Mini bus rented from Photo Garage in Lagos, christened “Black Maria”for the journey to Bamako.

Sasha Waters Freyer is the recipient of a 2019-20 Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's 2016 Helen Hill Award, honoring the legacy of artist, educator and activist Helen Hill. Other grants and awards include Best in Show at New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (2016); Director's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival (2013); Media Arts Production Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2015 and 2007; the Derek Freese Documentary Film Fund; the Graham Foundation; the Jerome Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; The Jacqueline Donnet Fund; The Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund; The Skaggs Foundation, and the Iowa Arts Council. Sasha has been a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony (2017, 2002, 1999), Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her films have been the subject of feature reviews in ArtForum,Mother Jones,Variety, IndieWIRE,Film Threat, The New York Times,The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times,The Hollywood Reporter,VICE,The New Yorker and Filmmaker Magazine, among others.

Churchill and Sansom claimed they were a married couple and related to Winston Churchill to make themselves seem more valuable as prisoners and less likely to be executed as spies. They were sent to different concentration camps, where they were tortured and sentenced to death, but both escaped execution. Churchill was first taken to the German barracks in Annecy, then to Fresnes, where he remained until 13 February 1944, when he was transferred to Berlin for questioning. At some point, he was tortured on the fifth floor of number 84 in Paris.On 2 May, he was sent to Sonderlager “A” Sachsenhausen, where he was held in solitary confinement for 318 days out of 11 months. On 1 April 1945, he was moved by train to Flossenbürg, 50 miles south-east of Bayreuth, where he was held for 3–4 days before being taken by truck and Black Maria on a 30-hour trip to Dachau where he was lodged in the former official (now empty) brothel at the Dachau concentration camp along with other officers of various nationalities, including the Italian General Garibaldi and his Chief of Staff, Colonel Ferraro.